MGA Championship
MGA Players' Championship
Windsong Farm Golf Club | Independence, MN
June 18-20, 2012
June 18-20, 2012
Deadline: Monday, April 30, 2012
Entry Fee: Players attempting to qualify will pay a $75 fee. All successful qualifiers will pay an additional $50 Championship fee. All exempt players will pay the full $125 fee.
Sectional Qualifying events are limited to a maximum of 84 players.
Players are encouraged to enter all MGA events online. Entry forms will not be accepted prior to Monday, April 2, 2012, but must arrive by the deadline of Monday, April 30, 2012, at the office of the Minnesota Golf Association. Entry into a Sectional Qualifying event is on a first-come basis, and the entry fee must accompany the entry form. If a player is submitting a paper application, preference for the top four qualifying sites should be indicated. The player will be assigned to the highest ranked site with openings available at the time of processing.
Late or incomplete entries are not acceptable and will be returned. Entries submitted by telephone, email or fax are not acceptable. Time limit for entries means time of receipt by the MGA.
Entries with insufficient funds will be considered incomplete and will be withdrawn. The entrant is responsible for any fees incurred by the MGA for such payment and must pay such fees before entry into further MGA events is allowed.
Entries are open to amateur golfers:
All entries are subject to approval or rejection at any time by the MGA Tournament Committee.
Players entered in the Championship, except exempt players, will play 18 holes of stroke play in Sectional Qualifying. The number of available qualifying spots at each site will be determined once entries close and will be posted on the MGA Mid-Players' Championship website. Any ties for qualifying spots or alternate spots at each site will be played off immediately, hole by hole, until the final qualifiers and alternates are determined.
A contestant may enter only once and attempt to qualify only one day and at one site.
From the inaugural event in 1901, the MGA Amateur Championship was a match play tournament through 1966. When it became a stroke play event the next year, this left the MGA without a match play tournament. That changed in 1979 when the MGA Players' Championship was created and held at Interlachen Country Club. Since then, the Players' Championship has become one of the most coveted titles on the MGA schedule.
The very nature of match play makes winning the title a real challenge. The victor will have to play and win six matches over three, very long and grueling days, walking all six matches. Thus, the list of champions has the names of many outstanding, and younger, players. Scott Harris claimed the title the first year as well as three years later in 1982. Tom Lehman claimed the title in 1980 and 1981. Other multiple winners include Steve Johnson (1988, 1989) and Terry O'Loughlin (1996, 1997).
In 2011 at Deacon's Lodge Golf Club, Ryan Peterson (Cannon Golf Club) claimed the championship, defeating Devin Holmes, the #33 seed (Rum River Hills Golf Club), 5 & 4. The event was plagued with thunderstorms on Day 1 that caused the second round matches to be completed on Day 2 before the Round of 16 could start. Then, rain and unseasonably cool weather played havoc with the matches until the end.
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